Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0663312

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0663312

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Trace element geochemistry of microbialites: towards an independent record of biogenicity, microbial communities, and seawater chemistry. A vast amount of Australia's mineral wealth is held in rocks of Precambrian age, yet those rocks are notoriously difficult to date and correlate owing to the rarity of fossils. Successful discrimination of different microbialites using biochemically sensitive trace elements will provide a firm basis and rationale for stromatolite biostratigraphy and greatly increase our ability to understand the geological evolution and distribution of Precambrian rocks and resources. Additionally, a better understanding of the information content of stromatolites will yield considerable insight into the origin of life on Earth and its relationship to Earth's evolving chemistry and environment.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2006

End Date: 31-12-2009

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $157,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biostratigraphy | Geology | Palaeontology | Geochemistry Not Elsewhere Classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Biological sciences | Earth sciences |

Other Keywords

Biological sciences | Biostratigraphy | Earth sciences | Geochemistry Not Elsewhere Classified | Geology | Palaeontology

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